ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — The owner of a Georgia peanut plant where a deadly salmonella outbreak originated five years ago approved sales of tainted food “whatever the risk,” including shipments known to have tested positive for the bacteria and others sent with fake lab results and no real confirmation the products were safe to eat, a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments in the food-poisoning trial Thursday.

Former Peanut Corporation owner Stewart Parnell and two co-defendants have been on trial in U.S. District Court since Aug. 1. Prosecutors spent four hours before court adjourned Thursday summing up a case that required more than five weeks of testimony from nearly 50 witnesses, plus an estimated 1,000 documents including company emails, sales records and lab analysis reports.